Striking-bag.



R. REACH.

STRIKING BAG.

APPLICATION FILED DB0. 3, 1912.

1,119,635. Patented Dec.1,1914.

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ROBERT REACH, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

- STEERING-BAG.

Specication of Letters Patent.4

Patented Dee. 1, 1914..

Application filed December 3, 1912i. Serial No. 734,769.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT REACH, citizen ofthe United States,residing at Springeld, Massachusetts, have inventedcertain new and useful yImprovements in Striking-Bags, of which thefollowing is a specification.

It is the object of my invention to provide means for suspending astriking bag which will allow the same all necessary swinging andswiveling movement and will present a simple and durable construction.

The invention consists in the features, combination and arrangement ofparts hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings,-Figure 1 is a side view of a part of thebag with the improved suspending means combined therewith. Fig. 2 is acentral vertical sectiony of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detailed view of thesuspending socket or shell.

Tn carrying out my invention I secure or form on the lower end ofthesuspending. cord 1, an enlargement 2,' consisting in the presentinstance of a ball or sphere which is held to the cord by a pin or screw3. This ball fits within a socket or shell Il having its upper end ofpartial spherical formation at 5 to afford a proper seat for the ball,an opening 6 being provided at the upper end of the socket or shell forthe passage of the cord and of sufficient area to allow the socket orshell to turn on the ball under all the conditions to which thevstriking bag is subjected.

The socket piece or shell is flared outwardly at its lower end intosubstantially the shape of a bell as at 7. This bell shaped portion litswithin the neck 8 of the striking bag, which neck is slitted at 9 at oneor more points and is bordered byany suitable binding material or bead10. This beaded neck extends up along the bell shaped shell or socketpiece to about midway of its height or slightly higher and which is atabout the point of knarrowest diameter of the bell. The neck of the bagis held on this bell shaped piece by a strap or draw string 11 whichpasses through eyes 12 formed by cutting out portions of the covering ofthe striking bag and passing the strap under these cut out portions. Thelower edge of the bell or socket piece is rolled as at 18 and this istrue also of the upper edge 14;. Between the bell and the expaiisibleportion of the striking bag a washer of leather or suitable material 16is placed such washer being of substantially conical form and having anaperture 17 through which projects the tube 18 by which the eXpansibleinner portion is iniiated.

It will be seen from the above construction that the ball is adapted toturn freely in the socket or bell shaped member, whichl prefer to formof metal and preferably of aluminum, and it will also be seen that thisbell shaped member affords a shaping and foundation member for the neckof the cover ofthe bag, which being secured irmly by the strap aroundthe narrow portion of the bell shaped part, is held thereto withsufficient security to withstand all the blows to which the striking bagis subjected. The washer 16 serves to protect the innerl inflatableportion of the bag from Contact with the edge of the bell and in eect itforms an extension of the retaining cover of the bag, its edges beingheld rmly under the edge of the bell shaped part and against the outercovering. l

'llnstead of securing a ball on the lower end of the suspending cord, 1may provide any other suitable enlargement, consisting for in- Y stanceof a knot formed on the end of the said cord, though of course I preferthe body of spherical form.

Besides protecting the inner inflatable member 19 from contact with themetal bell shaped member, the washer performs an additional importantfunction in that it forms practically a continuation over the top of theinflatable member of the walls of the outer leather covering and rendersit possible to remove the ball and bell Without deflating the innermember. twill be noticed that when 4the bag is iniiated the edge of thewasher is clamped between the inner member and the outer covering, andas it extends over the inner member it restrains it from blowing up intothe metal socket member, and should this socket member be removed thekwasher will still restrain the inner mem ber against blowing out throughthe neck of Cil bell shaped member, and a suspending cord, said bellshaped member having a swivel connection with the said cord,substantially as described.

2. ln combination in a striking bag, a bell shaped member, a coverhaving a portion surrounding the bell shaped member a cord connectedtherewith, and a strap passing through a slitted portion of the neck forholding the same to the bell shaped member, substantialljg/ asdescribed. 3, ln combination in a striking bag, asuspending cord, a.cover having a neck, a. meinber held within the neck with connectionbetween the said member' and suspending cord, and a washer between thesaid member and the inner inflatable portion of the bag, and borne uponby said member and inliat able portion substantially as described.

ln combination in a striking bag, a cover having a neck, a bell shapedshell therein, a suspending cord a swivel connection between the saidbell shaped shell and the suspending cord, and a washer extending overthe upper end of the inner inflat` able part of the bag and beneath theedge of the bell shaped shell, substantially as described.

5. ln combination in a striking bag, suspending means, a bell shapedmember supported thereby, a cover, and means for securing the cover tothe bell shaped member below the suspending means.

G. ln combination a cover having a neck, a bell member within the neck,a suspending cord connected with the bell member, an inllatable memberwithin the cover, said bell member being removable from the neck, and awasher having its lower edge held between the inflatable member and thecover, and extending over the top of said inflatable member to preventthe same from protruding into the bell member or neck of the cover,substantially as described.

7. ln a striking bag, suspending means, a cover, an inflatable member, abell shaped member, and means for confining the cover to the bell shapedmember intermediate of the suspending means and the inflatable member.

S. In combination in a striking bag, an inflatable member, a covertherefor having a neck, a shell held by the neck of the cover, and asuspending cord having an enlargement at its lower end, said enlargementbeing fixed non-rotatively in relation to the cord and engaging directlyand swiveling within the shell, substantially as described.

9. ln combination' in a striking bag, an inflatable member, a. covertherefor having a neck, a sheet metal bell shaped shell arranged in theneck and having its upper and lower rims rolled, a suspending cordhaving an enlargment at its end within the shell, means for securing theneck of the cover to the shell, and a protecting layer of materialbetween the lower edge of the shell and the inflatable member,substantially as described.

l0. in combination in a striking bag, a suspending cord, a ball carriedthereby, a-

bell shaped socket supported by the ball, a

bag carried by the bell shaped piece, and means for confining the end oithe bag to the bell below the position of the ball.

ll. ln combination in a striking bag, an inflatable member, a coverhaving a neck, a rigid bell-shaped member held in the neck of the cover,a. suspending cord having an enlargement held in the bell-shaped member,and a washer extending over the inflatable member and held at its loweredge to pre vent the protrusion of the inflatable member i into therigid bell, substantially as described. l2. In a striking bag,suspending means, an inflatable member, a bell shaped member supportedby said suspending means, a cover, and confining means carried by thecover for holding the cover and bell shaped member together andpermitting when released the removal of the said member and suspendingmeans independently of the deflation and removal of the inflatablemember.

ROBERT REACH. l/Vitnesses:

lVAL'rnR DONALDSON, BENNETT S. Jonas.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, 'by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). C."

